José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
MEXICAN WRITER AND POLITICAL JOURNALIST
Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi; Fernandez de Lizardi
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (November 15, 1776 – June 21, 1827), Mexican writer and political journalist, best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated as The Mangy Parrot in English, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America.